2003

Here are the winners and finalists (only five finalists competed face-to-face in 2003):

  • 1st: Brigham Young University (Marriott)
    Aaron Hopkinson, Dave Roach, Colin Jones, Geoff Howard, Scott Porter
  • 2nd: Duke University (Fuqua)
    Scott Marcus, Steve Dalton, Katie Lay, Adam Elboim, Paul Orsulak
  • 3rd: Harvard Business School
    Dan Stone, Samuel Clemens, Guillermo Silberman, David Tom, Kevin Barhydt

The following finalists are not listed in any particular order:

  • University of Texas at Austin (McCombs)
    Madhav Ghanta, Joseph Lopez, Robert Dunlap, Ritu Pahwa
  • Carlson School of Management
    Casey Liakos, Will Au-Yeung, Elizabeth Berger, Jen Wassman, Len Liptak

2003's sponsors included:

  • UPS Store
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Dial

The 2003 event was hosted at Thunderbird.

2004

Here are the winners and finalists:

  • 1st: Instituto de Empresa, Spain
    Richard Caelius, Alessandro Cappelletti, Claude Heinis, Nicolas Rodriguez, Frederico Tonetti
  • 2nd: Vanderbilt University (Owen)
    Alejandro Corpeno, Justin Miller, Michael Monteforte, Ilka Montross, Bing Tang
  • 3rd: Michigan State University (Broad)
    Jennifer Darmanin, Stacey Durham, Scott Lanard, John Layton, Steve Taylor

The following Top-10 finalists are not listed in any particular order:

  • Stanford Graduate School of Business
    Bill Bragg, Shan-Lyn Ma, Erick Tseng, Melanie Wyld
  • Emory University (Goizueta)
    Jen Barnett, Jason Hyman, Justin Parnell, Josh Shaeffer
  • IESE, Spain
    Ricardo Faria, Javier Gomez, Inigo Guinea, Joan Pares, Francesca Toninato
  • Indiana University (Kelly)
    Jeff Jaymont, Brian Smith, Georg Steiger, Yu Wu
  • University of Arizona (Eller)
    Mary Di, Panayiotis Panayides, Lloyd von Scheliha, Toff Williams
  • Brigham Young University (Marriott)
    Thomas Chock, Scott Edwards, Mandy McAllister, Gloria Mladineo, Cory Rice
  • Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
    Raghu Govindarajan, Elliot Reed, Eric Yu, Scott Zentack

2004's sponsors included:

  • Hilton
  • Valvoline
  • Chiquita
  • Sprint

The 2004 event was hosted at Thunderbird.

2005

Here are the winners and finalists:

  • 1st: Vanderbilt University (Owen)
    Alejandro Corpeno, Michael Monteforte, Sangram Borkar, Bana Shomali
  • 2nd: University of Rochester (Simon)
    Bhanu Pratap G. Muddagowni, Adwitiya Mal, Adam S. Bates, Niko Smrekar, Michelle Abraham
  • 3rd: Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
    Elliot Reed, Jannick Thomsen, Esben Lund-Hansen, Heidi Mullett

The following Top-10 finalists are not listed in any particular order:

  • UC Davis Graduate School of Management
    Shilpi Sharma, Thomas C. Nelson, Benedict J. Mok, Aaron E. Burda, Rocky K. Mitarai
  • Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management
    Benjamin R. Beaty, Biren Mehta, William C. Denney, Jonathan Rabinovitz, Vasantha Raghavan
  • Indian School of Business (one of two)
    Rohit Chhapolia, Rohit Garg, Anand Sairam, Konark Saxena, Bhishm Chugani
  • Harvard Business School
    Joe A. Carrol, Eric Morgan, Jonathan Kelly, Paris Wallace
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
    Jeanne Kesapradist, Christian LaFon, Dave A. Schillerr, Matthew J. LaMantia
  • Indian School of Business (two of two)
    Rishi Varma, Shameek Chakravarty, Mitika M. Kulshrestha, Sushma Kaushik, Saurabh S. Mathur
  • Cornell University (Johnson)
    Jenny Chang, Daniel Antonio G. Tirol, Natalie S. Messerle, Amy C. Cham, Erica Bliss

2005's sponsors included:

  • Hilton
  • IBM
  • USPS
  • American Express OPEN

The 2005 event was hosted at Thunderbird.

2006

Here are the winners and finalists:

  • 1st: McGill University (Desautels), Canada
    Stavros Tsokonas, Luc Tran, Heather Powers, Jonathan Powers, and Kanhaiya Sinha
  • 2nd: University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
    Kapil Pundir, Phaedra Boinodiris, Hirohisa Onome, Sara Sparks, Danvers Fleury
  • 3rd: MIT (Sloan) - Team 1
    Kristen Oldenburger and Viara Nedeva, Susan Rogol and Melissa King

The following Top-10 finalists are not listed in any particular order:

  • Indian School of Business
    Amit Sawhney, Tarun Sainanee, Dipti Rao, Shivanand Sinha, Rohan Nag
  • Manchester Business School
    Noel Robertshaw, Preet Mohnot, Caroline Dillard, Timothy Mills, Manuj Kumar
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
    Mark Baptista, Galen Li, Dong Kim, Ron Urwongse, Chris Chuang
  • University of California at Berkeley (Haas)
    Billy Leung, Vandana Bharvani, Wilson Chen
  • University of Rochester (Simon)
    Ibro Ambeskovic, Aditya Singh, Christine Stoelting, Hong Hu
  • VCU Adcenter
    Luis Carranza, Dele Oni, E.B. Davis, Alexis Bass, Zoe Bell
  • VCU Adcenter
    Marcus Brown, Sruti Dhulipala, Nien Lui, Elizabeth Gershman, Rodrigo De Lima

2006's sponsors included:

  • Hilton
  • Chrysler
  • Whirlpool
  • OPEN from American Express
  • GE Money
  • M&M's

The 2006 event was hosted at Darden.

2007

Here are the winners and finalists:

  • 1st: University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
    Tyler Mills, Sarajane Sparks, Danvers Fleury, Rachel Kuhn, Brian Stempeck
  • 2nd: Indian School of Business
    Prashant Goel, Pushkar Jain, Meghna Rao, Sushant Bhansali, Nishant Pandey
  • 3rd: London Business School
    Jeik Sohn, Gloria Chow, Kitty Lee, Emmanuel Couke, Daniel Hanna

The following finalists are not listed in any particular order:

  • University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
    Eric Boggs, Jennifer Fedor, Kami Burnette, Nicole Piotrowski, Yan Guan
  • Indian School of Business
    Jaspreet Singh Sidhu, Ankush Wadhera, Rao Y. Korupolu, Anandram Narasimhan, Kiran Kumar Alla
  • University of Virginia (Darden)
    Rahul Prabhu, Alex Steblev, Nat Postrigan, Amandeep Randhawa
  • University of Virginia (Darden)
    Gail Ballantyne, Piyush Parikh, Sarah Glass, Michael O'Brien
  • University of California at Berkeley (Haas)
    Erik Brown, Alexandra Levich, Santiago Rodriguez, Rashid Ahmed, Sumeet Verleker
  • University of Denver (Daniels)
    Jamie Butcher, Don Cassidy, Joanne B. Brownhill, Tom Briscoe, Peter C. Keilman
  • Indian Institute of Mangement, Indore
    Amit Srivastava, Vivek Iyer, Rajat Hooda

2007's sponsors included:

  • Hilton Hotels
  • OPEN from American Express
  • Whirlpool
  • Shell
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Lexmark

The 2007 event was hosted at Darden.

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